Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronomers probe outward in space, they are looking backward in time, because the light that they see from very distant objects started its journey millions of years ago. They see the light from stars that no longer exist, and chart strange, starlike objects that could hold the secret of how the universe began. Quasars (for quasi-stellar radio sources) are the most intriguing of these objects, the oldest and most brilliant things in the observable universe, and the sources of powerful and mysterious radio waves. Now astronomers have identified a new class of quasi-stellar objects shining...
...collector's item [May 28]. The tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly any margin on either side, and little on the top or bottom of each page...
Clobbered Widow. Nor is Connery backward about claiming that he has helped the James Bond image along no end. "You must realize," he says, "that Ian Fleming's books began coming out after the war and rationing and all that, and they had all this selectivity of detail of eating and drinking. It was marvelous journalism. But Ian told me it was nothing but padding. You know, vodka must be shaken and not stirred, that kind of razzmatazz. But he did write with a bit of size." The only thing the Fleming books lacked, in Connery's view...
...dented top hat named Sir (Cyril Ritchard). Sir makes the rules for the Game of Life, which is played rather like circular hopscotch on a huge disk at stage center. Any time Cocky manages two jumps forward, he is forced to go three jumps or more backward. Arbitrary? Unreasonable? One understands-the game is hopelessly rigged...
...Boston, and a few college radicals...who have joined in a conspiracy to tell the people of Boston how to run their schools." Her fellow committeeman Joseph Lee shares the same viewpoint, but with a twist of his own. White children, he declares, "do not want large numbers of backward pupils from unprospering Negro families shipped into their schools." Surely Mrs. Hicks and Mr. Lee do not represent the New Boston. But where are its leaders...